Automatic igniting and extinguishing appliance for gas-burners.



PATENTED DEC. 4:, 1906. J. HOROWITZB AUTOMATIC IGNITING ANDEXTINGUISHING APPLIANCE FOR GAS BURNERS.

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ATM/74%) No. 837,888. PATENTEDDEG. 4, 1906. J. HOROWITZ.

AUTOMATIC IGNITING AND EXTINGUISHING APPLIANCE FOR GAS BURNBRS.APPLICATION FILED JULY 20, 1904.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

No. 837,838. Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4, 1906. Application filed m 20, 1904.. Serial NO-217.334.

To all whom zit may concern.-

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of the side walls of which is provided with orifices 6 and 6. This boxis mechanical engineer, residmg at Rue Serdivided by a centraltransverse partition 13 van, in the city of Paris, Republic of France 1into two compartments 13 and 13, with ave invented Improvements Relatmgto j which the passages 5 and 5, respectively, utomatic I niting andExtmguishm Apcommunicate. Against this wall is adapted pliances forGasBurners, of which the followto move a slide or valve 14, turningfreely ing is afull, clear, and exact description. upon the spring-shaft15, and the displace- 1s inventlon has for its object an appament ofwhich serves to alternately open or 6 ratus constructed m such a manneras to conclose the orifices 6 6. tro alternately and automatically froma he controlling device serves to produce point situated atagreater orless distance the t e displacement of the slide 14 in such a ignitionand substantial extinction of any demanner as to establish communicationof the slred number of gas-burners, illuminatinggas-generatoralternately with the pipe for signs, advertisements, transparencies,and, supplying the gas and with the service-pi e generally speaking,signs of all kinds serving to the burners. This device consists of aeither for advertising purposes or as lumicounterweighted beam 11provided with nous signals. The apparatus comprises for projectionsacting alternately upon one or this purpose a bell which can be liftedby the other 0 the extremities of the slide 14. 7 5 gas under pressureand lowered when the gas- At t e oWer part of the gasholder is pressuredecreases. The movement of the formed a passage 16, adapted to beregulated bell controls the flow of gas to the bell and by a pin-valveor cook 17 and connecting the from the bell to the burners. It will beunpassages 5 and 5 for the admission and disderstood that this method isapplicable not 0 ar e of t e gas for supplying the pilot- 8c only topublic lighting, but also in railwaylights in such a manner that theyalways restations, theaters, cafes, and, generally I mam in actionduring the operation of the speaking, for all establishments where it isignition-extinction device. desired to attract the attention of thepublic E In order to start the apparatus, it is only and produceluminous signs or advertisenecessary to open the cock 4 and to kindlements economically. the group of burners 1 of the sign. The gas heinvention is hereinafter described with entering the gas-holder-throughthe passa e reference to the accompanying drawings, 5 and orifice 6lifts the bell 7 which with its which are given by way of example, andin rod 8 and the stop 10 acts upon the beam 11 whicht e counterweight ofw '0 causes it to 9c Figure 1 is a vertical section of an apparacompleteits rocking movement from right to tus embodying my invention, and Fig.2 is a left. In its rotation the beam 11 encounters partial horizontalsection of the same. Fig. one of the extremities of the slide, whichthen 3 is a vertical section through the apparatus rotates rapidly uponits axis, the orifice 6 of As clearly shown in the drawings, upon thethe face of the receivei opens and the other, 5 sign represented in Fig1 is arranged a group 6, closes. The group of burners being then 0urners, the pipe 1 of which is connected kindled will consume the volumeof gas cony a pipe 2 to the distributing apparatus and tained in thebell. This latter descends in by the service-pipe 3 with the source ofsupproportion to the consumption until it ply of gas. The apparatus isplaced in com- 1 reaches with its rod 8 and stop 9 the beam 11.munication with the service-pipe by the in- ;i This beam then rocksagain in the opposite termediary of a cock 4, and the gas enters itdirection to that of its first movement, and in passing through thepassage 5 and the oriacted upon by the counterweight causes b ce 6,passing into a receiver or box 13. It means of its other extremity therocking of t en escapes into the bell 7, which dips in a the slide 14,closing the discharge-orifice 6 vessel containingacertain quantity ofliquid and again opening the admission-orifice 6, The bell 7 rises underthe influence of the gaspermitting, owing to the fresh admission ofpressure, carrying wlth it the rod 8 fixed I gas beneath the bell, ofanew displacement of upon the upper part of the bell and provided theslide, and so on in succession. The burnwith two stops or tappets 9 and10, acting in ers having been lighted once for all will con- 1 10 turnupon the extremity of a beam 11, freely I articulated upon the spindle12 laterally of l pilot-lights In cases in which mulitcolored luminoussigns it is only necesth sary to surround proximity to I claim Inapparatus of the class described, in a vessel adapted to contain aliquid, a bell mounted in said vessel and adapted to dip in said liquid,aboX presenting combination,

a Wall With openings cating means for pressing -face, said slide beingadapted to close one of the signs with transparent glasses of thedesired colors.

with the interior of said pivotally attached upon one position and theother of said openings in another position, a counter- Weighted beammounted adjacent to said slide adapted to engage opposite ends thereofalternately, means for actuating said beam with said bell, a gas-burner,ing from one of said openings to said burner, and a second passageleading to the other of said openings from a source of gas-supply.

The foregoing specification of my improvements relating to automaticigniting and exsaid openings in it is desired to produce e burnersarranged in tinguishing appliances for gas-burners signed therethroughcommun1- by me this 2d day of July, 1904.

bell, a slide JOSEPH HOROWITZ. the face of said Wall, Witnesses: saidslide against said HANSON C. COKE,

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